Saturday, June 23, 2018

Facebook doesn't get to steal my thunder

After President Nelson issued the youth a challenge to take a week long fast from social media, it gave me a perfect time to do the same since I was getting irritated with the slander that facebook has turned into. My other beef with fb is that while I was excited to share the fun moments of little miss with people, it started to steal my thunder when telling stories about what was going on in life. People would ask," How've you been?" I would tell them and then they'd say, "oh yea, I saw that on fb!" Well then what becomes the point of asking, or face to face interaction? So I have been using fb as a way to put my art out there, but even minimally because then people can just see it and don't buy it. I've also used it to put announcements up or get recommendations. I still want to share what's going on with us and perhaps you might wonder how a blog is different that fb stealing thunder. Well in a way I guess it isn't, but I felt strongly I needed to still keep track of her growing moments.

We went to the aerospace museum on Hill Air Force Base and Lucy is just like her Papa in the way she loves air planes. It's a massive museum with military planes outside as well as two massive hangers full of planes from different wars.



 this girl loves buckles.

 the model home porch of the Saving Private Ryan story.


 If you can't tell, Lucy is standing in front of the front wheels...this thing was huge!






Last weekend I participated in West Fest with a friend of mine and we tried selling our talents, painting, and crotched toys and sewn project bags. It was an exhausting weekend that produced very little but now we know we'll stick to selling online and word of mouth. Lucy got to try a carnival ride so that was fun, but it was 3 days of eating out and I got sick from all the hubbub.











So after that I was determined to cook at home every night and everything was pretty good! Last night we made two ingredient pizza dough using self rising flour and greek yogurt for a pepperoni pizza and it was actually really good! We had homemade chocolate chip cookies for dessert.

I also made homemade ice cream and threw in some homegrown raspberries that were already here when we bought the house.

I'm nearly 30 weeks with little Tommy and he is quite a yogi with a sweet tooth. I don't remember being this tired with Lucy but I also didn't have Lucy around the last time.

Food wise, Lucy loves olives, tomatoes, trail mix, yogurt, pancakes or waffles, bacon, cheese, asparagus. She is allergic to raspberries and cantaloupe and they cause her to break out.


She sleeps with a pillow on top of her that she sticks her hands into and sticks her tongue out a tiny bit and sucks on it.

She's got the memory of an elephant and she's like her aunt Andrea when it comes to telling you where to find hidden things. She can count to 6 and then she jumbles the last few, knows her colors, and remembers people and events like none other.

She likes to interrupt and say," Daddy, don't talk to mommy" then which Thomas asks if he can talk to himself, which she oks, then proceeds with his story.

We have a bunny a few houses down that we feed a carrot to every morning on our walk that we call Thumper.  She's got all the houses memorized in our neighborhood and is so spacial-wise that when we are a block away from the Salt lake temple she says," Jesus lives there!" and let's go to dinos! which is an in door play around across the street from the temple in City Creek mall.

She loves nursery, primary songs, and reading scriptures. She loves to read and when we read a book to her once she can pretty much tell the story after that.

She loves to help turn the water on when we water the lawn or garden and after warming up to it likes to play in the water. If daddy is there she'll full flegde  play in the water but otherwise she's a chicken lol.

She obsessed with buckles and buckling them, especially in baby brother's car seat.


Thomas and I went to the Music Man at the new Hale theather in Sandy. If you want something fun to do go to one of their shows. They are awesome and fairly priced!






Ryan and his friend Kristen came and helped put baseboards in our house and did an awesome job. It was hectic and Lucy got like no naps and was teething with 2 yr molars, but all part of the fun haha.





I also got released months ago from Young Women president and am now a primary teacher...a calling I feel much more natural at. Thomas got put in as the Elders quorum president. Either way  Lucy is used to one of us going to meetings lol.

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Successful mommying with two big things

I've had a rough couple months in the mommy category but I'll tell you what's made a big difference.

Realistic expectations and flexibility.

My biggest annoyance with myself was being a mom that yelled. I wanted to react better and it just seemed to never get better. It made it difficult in the idea of having another kid. Well, something clicked one day and I tried to be patient and loving, and I went with Little miss to the store and we were that classic mom and kid in the store with tantrums. I got to the point where I sternly said I didn't care if people looked at me unapprovingly because this is how I had to handle it in the moment. Something clicked with her and she calmed down just a bit. But the best part was going to the car in the rain and her bent under my jacket to stay out of the rain, then in the carseat all buckled and I said," Mommy's sorry for getting mad. Can you forgive her?" and she sweetly smiled and said "yea!" and I followed up with "Do you love mommy?" and she replied the same sweet "yea!"
Make up is almost better than wanting to be perfectly calm all the time.
Opposition in all things is a true principle. It makes the sweet sweeter even if the sour is more sour.

Flexibility. My biggest fear is never having something planned or those plans falling through and having to come up with stuff. Well, last week instead of freaking out when plans fell through I just became ok with staying home and reading or playing with her.
God is flexible with a lot of things. He even had a back up plan starting with Nephi because Joseph was going to cave to pressure and lose the manuscript.

Be flexible and have a back up plan. Expect things are probably going to be change.

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Motherhood is coming easier

My biggest fear for the future was that I wasn't going to be a good mom because kids were just big question marks. I swear babies could see right through me...them and horses. haha

I've officially been a full time mom for over a year now and I've gone through every emotion from "this is so fun" to "what do I do with another full day" to "how do people have multiples?"

Along that time frame I was also trying to get painting commissions or be a private art teacher. I didn't get any business. None. I also applied to be an art teacher for Michaels crafts and that didn't happen. I applied for VIPKID and am still able to do a second interview but it hasn't felt right. Either way I have determined bringing an income is not what I'm supposed to do. Being a mom is. For me, that's what I'm supposed to do.
Something clicked in my mind a few days ago to help with this.

I determined that if I was to be a full time mom then I should embrace it, but I felt like someone had turned an invisible key inside me and that's what made me feel confident about life now.

So I seek every opportunity to be a homemaker. My goal is to provide a haven for my family but physically and spiritually. I know it's not a popular path and like I said a day or so ago when you ask pinterest for ideas on homemaking its top 2 hits are "work from home part time" and make your own essential oils". Even pinterest is trying to make this life all about making money.

I don't like to say I'm a stay at home mom, because I like to be out with people doing soul enriching things. That's what I want for Lucy. Home is our place to relax and rest and rejuvenate. 

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Google knows alot, but not all

I was listening to the conference talk for our spiritual development and learning. He mentioned that people often discredit information if it's not immediately accessible. When it comes to gaining a testimony you can't just ask Google if the gospel of Jesus Christ is true. It will give you articles that will probably direct you to others accounts and mix it with both testimonies that it is true  along with those of anti Mormon literature or just information about the church . But  it can't speak to your heart. Google can tell you what a whale sounds like but it can't give you the spiritual bed rock that confirms that Jesus Christ lives, the book of Mormon is true, Joseph Smith was called of God, and the only true source of truth is taught by the spirit.

Yes, Google is totally indispensable. But it can't hold a candle to the spirit.

Friday, January 20, 2017

lessons from watercolor class

I got to teach watercolor to our ward's yw last night and a couple things were interesting to me.

I told the girls the number one rule was not to compare your art to anyone else's, especially mine because I've been doing it for so long and it wouldn't be fair.

The things that really stuck out to me were one of the leaders and one of the girls. Both sat and stared for most of the activity at their painting without doing much to it. I had been walking around in case anyone needed help and gave suggestions every now and then. The amusing part was the leader had me there to help her and didn't want to do it because she was so nervous that she'd mess it up. With 10 minutes left of the activity she finally put color to the paper, but still didn't like how it turned out because it wasn't perfect.

I thought instantly that I wonder if there are times when we hold back from doing something because we are terrified of messing up and don't think to ask for help from Heavenly Father. I mean, I was right there waiting and ready to help and she was paralyzed to try.

The other girl finally raised her hand when I asked if anyone was struggling to know how to do something and I showed her how to blend a sky with vibrant colors. She was so impressed and surprised and then became more courageous. She progressed because she was willing to try and ask for help.

I thought they were interesting analogies.


Saturday, September 17, 2016

Moving sale!!!!

moving sale lots of awesome stuff. 8-noon. Sept 24
2581 s 1400 w Rexburg 83440
first come first serve, if interested please just come by.









irst come first serve, if interested please just come by.







 

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Bomb.com pasta with italian sausage and queso fresco

So I didn't take the picture but the recipe is a total hit of my own creation and it was BOMB.
Momma JoAnn Sevy's sugu sauce-use what you need for the pasta then freeze the rest :)
(((1 onion chopped fine but not minced
1 tbl garlic minced
1 can tomato pure-use this can for 1 can of water
1 can tomato sauce
couple handlefulls parsley
1 tbl salt/pep
1 tbl sugar(my own twist on the recipe)
Cook onion and garlic down. Add the rest, boil, then simmer til desired thickness.)))

3 cups pasta of your preference
italian sausage-cooked
**queso fresco-(the whole wheel)
1 tbl sweet basil
1 tbl parsley
Cook all together. The longer it sits the better! This lasted us like 3 days. Total crowd pleaser. :D